Chest pain...

[mexa]

kay so today i had more chest pain than other days...what kind of chest pain? well :

its mainly in the left side of my torax, starting from my lowest rib and goes up to where the heart is supposed to be. it lasts for like 3-5 secs and it feels sorta like um...someone is passing a needle really hard through me or something similar.

it has been increasing frequently specially today, it usually happened like...once a month or so, but today its been atleast 10 times i get that pain =/.

Whats wrong with me? is it bad? it probably is isnt it? best thing to do would be get checked right? just need more info or opinions to make a decision.

Thanks to all in advance!

[Kaleidoscope Eyes]

If you're worried, get it checked out.

Is it just pain, or is it pressure, too? Does breathing affect it? Something that popped into my head is Precordial Catch Syndrome (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precordial_catch_syndrome), which I'm pretty sure everyone gets it here and there. It's sudden pain on the left side of the chest, typically lasts less than a minute, and worsens with breathing. No one really understands it, but it's not believed to have any bad effects or to indicate that anything's wrong. I've had it a few times and I know that my boyfriend has it a lot. He had a severe allergic reaction a few months ago which really affected the muscles in his chest, and since then he's had the whole Precordial Catch thing happening a lot more often than it used to.

If the link describes what's happening to you, there's nothing wrong. It'll just be an annoyance and hopefully it'll stop happening so often. For short bursts of pain, happening about every few weeks like you've described, that's the first thing that pops into my head.

If that doesn't fit, though, or it happens so much that you're really worried, see your doctor.

[sebbie]

There is a lot of potential things that could cause chest pains, best bet is to go see a doctor they will probably examine you by listening to your chest with a stethoscope to check your breathing and possible forward you for a X-ray to see if there is anything wrong.

[karl]

See your doctor, only he can tell you for sure

[Sceneboy612]

Im not a doctor, so do not believe everything i say.

But i had this same exact thing happen to me. It felt like someone was seriously shoving a blade into my heart and twisting it. So after going threw this off and on for about 5 months i decided to go to the hospital about it. My doctor told me that it was a "Growing Pain", and that the feeling was a mussle cramping in front of my heart, and behind my rib cage... so right between the two. If you slow your breathing down, and lay down on your stomach, it makes the pain go away pretty well, or if you get off your feet.

But i would recommend getting a real doctor to tell you this, becasue i cannot promise anything. Chest pains around the heart are really not good.